argued by some historians that the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand provided Austria-Hungary with an admissible reason to invade Serbia, and Austria-Hungary had Germany’s full military support with their cause (HISTORY.com, 2015). The Schlieffen Plan, which is another short-term cause of WW1, got put into effect after Austria-Hungary’s attack on Serbia. The purpose of the Schlieffen Plan was to ensure Germany fought the European nations, Russia and France effectively. The Schlieffen plan did not
powers are Germany, Austria - Hungary, Britain, France and Russia. In this essay I am going to discuss about long term and short term causes and how they linked to the Great War. An event such as a war may have many complicated causes, but it often needs what historians call a "trigger" to set it off. Most people agree that that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the trigger that set off the Great War. Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. He was assassinated
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand and the Outbreak of a Major European War It's the early 19th century and problems are erupting all over Europe. France has just finished a war with Prussia in which it was defeated and tempers are running high. Germany has taken a piece of Eastern France named Alsace Lorraine and France wants revenge. France has been very humiliated and is now building up its alliances. The first of these was the Dual entente; an agreement between France and Russia signed in
therefore dragging themselves into the First World War when Germany invaded Belgium to fight France. In 1848, Austria-Hungary under Franz Josef lost a war against France, beginning a long rivalry between the two countries. In 1860, Italy was founded which agravated Austria-Hungary as parts of ithe land had originally been owned by them. In 186, Austria-Hungary under Franz Josef lost to Prussia creating tention between Austria-Hungary and yet more countries within Europe. In 1870, the Franco-Prussian
England controlled vast holds in Africa, as well as India; the Belgians ruled the Congo; Germany, France, and Italy also held several African lands. These colonies funded a great part of the ruling countries' economies and provided foreign markets for European products, and expansion became necessary and desirable to advance the glory and the wealth of each European power. However, the land available diminished as Germany, France, England, Italy, and Belgium occupied increasingly large tracts of land. Oftentimes
Italy, France, Austria-Hungary and Germany were the six main countries in Europe. At the time, France disliked Germany because they took over Alsace-Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian war, and Alsace-Lorraine was under France’s control. Germany formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary and Russia to be protected, and the alliance was called the “Three Emperors League”. Germany was also part of the “Triple alliance”, which was made up of Austria-Hungry, Italy and Germany. Due to an argument between
quite some time but eventually provinces began to gain more power than others. For example, Austria-Hungary had conflicts with population. Small minorities like the Germans in Austria and the Magyars in Hungary tried to control the increasing population of Slavs. They were worried that the Slavs would gain too much power and take over Austria-Hungary. Still many years before the war Austria Hungary annexed the twin Balkin provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina. This grab for territory and power frustrated
‘Germany was responsible for the outbreak of World War One’. How far do you agree? World War one has become to be known as “The Great War”. It was known as “The War to end all Wars”. Many people believe Germany was responsible for the outbreak of war in 1914. To solely blame one country or one single act for the cause of World War One is wrong as there are more than one country involved and more than one event that caused World War One. Even if Germany was responsible for the war the other major
On March 19, 1944, Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Hungary making life for Hungarian Jews more difficult than it was. Before Germany had invaded Hungary, there were already anti-Jewish laws, and other conditions that were applied to Hungary, because Hungary was allied to Germany during part of the war. Although Hungary was allied with the Germans, there were disagreements that occurred between the two allies. One of the disagreements was that Hungary was not willing to send its troops to the
between Austro-Hungary and Germany against Serbia, Russia, France, and England, at what cause was some many lives sacrificed for, none, just selfish governments looking to expand their empire. The main perpetrator of World War One was none other than Austro-Hungary. The reasons being for Austro-Hungary to cause the war was that they were the ones to place the ultimatum on Serbia that would lead to declare war and bring in all other countries to fight. Austro-Hungary brought in Germany; beforehand they